My first Learning Activity on PIL Network

I’m elate to announce that I uploaded KSPS first learning activity on Partners in Learning network in the GOld LEVEL!!!

Please don’t hesitate to check the activity and see the creativity of KSPS clovers!

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Towards the Big Dance

For the fifth year, KSPS young clovers are participating in the Big dance, organized by the British Council. For this reason, 40 KSPS students, 8 to 11 years, participated in the big dance training that was held on Tuesday April 1st in ABAT, Bshara Al Khoury campus. Elaine Macey & Dean Soden – Artistic Directors of 4Motion Dance Theatre Company in the UK trained around 100 students from KSPS and ABAT on the Big Dance. The fifth edition of the Big Dance Pledge is part of Culture 2014, a programme of events and projects inspired by the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. It is created by Scottish Ballet with the Special Educational Needs (SEN) focus. The British Ambassador to Lebanon Mr. Tom Fletcher has confirmed his attendance on the Big Dance event this year The Big Dance performance will take place on Saturday 10 May 2014 at 0930am in Nejmeh/Parliament Square, Beirut Down Town The whole dance is available on the following link: http://vimeopro.com/communitydance/bigdance2014/video/84039895 Book Yourself from now ;) Part of the training

Let us talk about Weather!

KSPS young clovers started an international collaborative activity with their friends in Ling Moore Academy in UK. The aim of this activity is to teach UK students about the Lebanese weather, and on the other hand our friends in UK we will teach us more about the weather in UK. To fulfill our aim, KSPS students did plenty of interesting activities in their classes. Grade 3 and 5 students drew the weather of the day on “Paint” and on cardboards. Grade 4 students used “Wordle” and described the Lebanese weather using different words. While Grade 6 students composed a song about the Lebanese weather “Let us talk about Weather” using Microsoft Songsmith program. We sent our work to our friends in Ling Moore Academy to learn about the Lebanese weather, and we are excited to receive their work too!

Candle to mom

Grade 4 students are learning about physical changes. For this reason, they decided to make their own hand made candles. They melted, poured, and molded wax to design their own candles that they decided to give to their moms as a Mother's day gift. Finally, students concluded that melting, pouring, and molding wax are physical changes because the identity of wax didn’t change. During the upcoming week Grade 4 students are going to learn about chemical changes. Stay tuned to show you more interesting experiments!

Technology in our Math and Science classes

Technology has advanced my Math and Science classes in a positive way. With access to a computer and internet, different activities can be performed online in the classroom.

Since last month and on weekly basis, cycle 2 students are performing online formative assignments and tests using different web 2.0 tools; Zoomerang, survey monkey, hot potatoes…

After an entire month of implementing the online assignments in the Math and Science classes, it was clearly observed that they had a positive impact on students’ results and on children who have difficulty performing in traditional classroom environments. 

Ask Grade 6, The scientists!

Grade 6 students have a dream to become real scientists when they grow up. For this reason, they started practicing from now and make amazing experiments.
                                     

 Enjoy!

Math Outdoor Learning Sessions

 During the last week, Grade 6 students took part in Math Outdoor Learning sessions where they were studying about polygons, lines and angles relationship, circles… Students took part in a “Team Challenge” during the outdoor sessions. They were divided into groups; each group had to draw different kinds of polygons, and to represent lines and angles relationship using different geometric tools. Outdoor learning sessions had a positive impact on children’s learning and concentration, while enhancing cognitive skills, social skills, self-esteem, and creativity.

Happy, Healthy and successful young people need to be outside!